Wichita eagle., 1887-05-08
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THE ECCENTRIC IN PHOTOGRAPHS
HON ely Women Who Have Parts of Their
FACES taken Il rains Devise Compensa-
ton for the Lack OF PLY sical Fascina-
tionS.

Homaly Women Who Have Parts of Their
FACES Taken Il rains Devise Compensa-
ton for the Lack OF PLY sical Fascina-
tions.
However, said the photographer,
81 started out to speak of the recent
waking up Of the plain women OF the
world to the value Of the eccentric in
posing before the camera.
Il speak OF actresses because they have
the most original ideas, and carry them
out feailessly. Here is the proof of a
picture OF a hopelessly inferior-looking
woman who Is starring in the West with
her own company and making a great
deal of money.
"She fully appreciates the value OF
photograph as an advertising medium.
and as her own faco-pure, simple. and
unadorned-will never craze the popu-
lace she has hit upon the cheme Of
showing only part OF IL at a time.
=. Here are three OF her designs"
The irst represented n roguish and
grinning face with a mass of tangled
hair, two rows of white teeth, and a
barely per reptible dimple. The face
looked out from between two curtains
which We're drawn down on either side OF
it, meeting beneath the chin.
There was something SO froiicsome
and gay about the whole expression that
one smiiei involuntarily on looking at it.
The effect WAS further heightened by the
contrast o. tae faces on curtains on
either side
Two faces were woven into the cur
tains, and both OF them were as solemn
AND CRU some III expression as 1t is pos
sible to imagine. They were not very
distinct, ai.d they served admirably to
give emp ASS TO the jolly facs that
looked cut rom between them.
The second photograph represented
section Of a GARD fence.
Roughly painted on two planks were
the words. All, there," and through a
big crack between the boards could be
seen one eye, an eyebrow, and part Of
the noe o! the actress.
There vas something extremely wide
awake ana arJiul about the eye, and the
nose was ,WriHkied 50 that it had de-
cidediy ".ougH' expression.
Altogether the oddly of the picture
would ca.se people to look at it twice
before turning away.
The tHiri and last of the series Of pict-
ureo Wa, by all odds the best Of the
three.
1t represented the head and neck OF
the actress rising out OF the sea.
One might be excused for thinking
that she had just swallowed lot OF salt
water, for ,he face fairly spluttered with
eXcite"r0' The mouth was drawn
down -.. oDcncd to the fullest ex-
tent, ana the loI.s and stringy hair hung
over the wet face
Everything was dripping wet. and the
whole appearance OF the face prepared
one for the blood-curdling shrek which
women bathers of a more boisterous sort
usually give vent to after they have been
torcibIy doused under the waves at Coney
Island.
These three pictures" said the
photographer, handling them carefully,
will advertise the original from one
end OF America to the other.
The photograph as an advertising
medium is, comparatively speaking, a
recent idea, but it is, nevertheless, enor-
mously effective, and it grows more i'm
portant every year.
Nov that plain women have got
started in this line, there is no telling
where their ingenuity will stop, for they
see the Importance Of catching the pub
lie eye, and, as ! said before, 1t is the
unlovely ones Of earth's womankind who
pos ess the greatest amount OF original
fly and brains. IN. Y. Sun.